Woman Killed Running To Bus

CENTRAL FLORIDA - The Area - In Brief

January 20, 2004

ORANGE COUNTY - A woman died almost instantly early Monday when she ran into the path of an oncoming car as she dashed through heavy fog to catch a bus.

The 19-year-old victim was hit at 6:32 a.m. within feet of a Lynx bus picking up passengers on Turkey Lake Road across the four-lane road from the entrance to Westgate Lake Resorts, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

"She was late, and, witnesses said, she was trying to run across the road," FHP Trooper A.J. Maurer said of the victim, a Peruvian national who was not identified pending notification of her family.

Sunrise was still 46 minutes away and there were no street lights in the area. No charges were filed against the motorist, Joann Rivera, 26, of Kissimmee.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Her body was taken to the Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner's Office, according to Orange County Fire Rescue.